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Ma'am I'm gonna need you to step out of the car.

Same location as https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/246782131 but not certain it's the same individual. I think I saw something brown legs belly-up and dead-looking next to this spider. (Seen best in 3rd photo.) Looked like possibly a dead spider or a shed skin. But I couldn't get a close enough look or photo.

I saw the same specimen again at the same point. I wanted to stun her by putting her to freezer, take pictures from all angles until she wakes up and then release her but unfortunately, I accidentally kept her there for too long(20 minutes) and killed her.

I tried my best with photographing the epigyne, hope it's enough.

I don't have ethanol yet, I put her in hand sanitizer(it has water, glycerin and 70% ethanol in it). I plan on sending her to an university but not yet.

Pictures:
1) Dorsal view. (a little edited)
2) Dorsal view. (not edited)
3) Lateral view.
4) Ventral view.
5) Anterior view.
6) Anterior view.
7) Epigyne.
8) Epigyne.
9) Epigyne.
10) Dorsal view, next to a ruler.
11) Ventral view, next to a ruler.
12) Anterior view.
13) Anterior view.

Female Phileaus chrysops, similiar to the color type that H. Metzner described as "opisthosoma dorsally red with a broad black median band containing two parallel white longitudinal lines"(in Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands) but two white lines are very thin, opisthosoma dorsal almost all black and has red on the lateral & anterior sides of the opisthosoma.